look over towards the americas and first talk about the northeast here. some cleari ing skies across mu of this a area, but you are still recovering from sandy which occurred last week. i want to show you a video out of queens here in new york, one week after sandy hit. this was a low-lying area that was inundated by massive waves and battered by hurricane-force winds. at least 100 homes were destroyed from a fire resulting from a gas explosion triggered by the storm here. the main challenge facing these residents is a lack of heating and electricity as temperatures are expected to fall here throughout the next several days due to a high pressure coming in from the great lakes. you see this, that's carrying an abundance of cold air with it. overnight temperatures could be getting down to freezing, even below freezing. farther towards the south, we have this low-pressure area. that's going to spark up severe weather across the gulf states drawing in moisture out of the gulf of mexico here, pulling it off there towards the north. severe weather could be on